Category Archives: Website Load Testing

Load Testing MCR Retail websites – Realism and accuracy

Posted on December 15, 2011 by deri

The team here have been very busy the last quarter, as always, a lot of retailers want to load test their websites in advance of the seasonal shopping rush, and this year it seems that the benefit of this preperation … Continue reading →

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Christmas eCommerce planning – Checking It Twice or losing it!

Posted on August 15, 2011 by deri

It’s that confusing time of year when the sun is shining outside the window, but the big projects on the go are Christmas ones! It’s a no-brainer ROI wise, that eCommerce retail sites need to prepare for the Christmas rush, … Continue reading →

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The Day We Went To BarCamp Canterbury

Posted on May 12, 2011 by admin

On the 30th April SciVisum sponsored the first Canterbury BarCamp and presentations were made by Dr David Hobson of our technical team, and Deri Jones, CEO. Here are their round ups of the day itself: ‘There’s no way this can … Continue reading →

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Website performance lessons from the Travel Industry

Posted on February 10, 2011 by deri

econsultancy.com put up some interesting research this week , What do customers want from travel websites? This reflected some of the best practise lessons that came out of a website performance assessment this month. Some of the findings were surprising, … Continue reading →

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2011 website performance testing : run over in the Xmas rush

Posted on December 1, 2010 by deri

It’s been a very busy time here with a variety of interesting website load testing projects, capacity planning  and website performance  activity, with some helpful tips coming out of it. A good percentage of what we do is focused on … Continue reading →

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Website Load Testing with LoadRunner – running out of road

Posted on September 28, 2010 by deri

I just came out of an interesting load test planning meeting .    It was with an organisation we’d worked with on web performance testing for some time, but this is the first time we’ll be doing major web load testing … Continue reading →

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The UK’s biggest web Load Test ever?

Posted on September 13, 2010 by deri

As part of our web performance testing services, we’ve been web load testing for a long time now. We’ve tested most sectors now, from government departments, to law firms, to online etailers, to utility companies and banks. We’ve tested big … Continue reading →

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Web site failures – expect the unexpected

Posted on August 25, 2010 by deri

As web performance testers, we regularly see subtle technical issues cause substantial failures in website user journeys -we expect the expected. Whether in 24/7 monitoring, when our multi-user-journey approach routinely highlights that all areas of a web site may be … Continue reading →

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The Marketers new badge of success – the site crashed!

Posted on July 22, 2010 by deri

Interesting bit of marketing spin this week from Marie Claire magazine – who reckon that their latest recommended must-have beauty product was so much in demand that it crashed the Boots.com web site! Confidence in Boots takes a knock from … Continue reading →

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Testing Flash Websites – I no longer hate them

Posted on December 1, 2009 by deri

We’ve been testing quite a flurry of Flash based websites the last few weeks. Funny, a couple of years back I didn’t much like the use of Flash that I saw – but the web load tests on Flash sites … Continue reading →

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